Reminder: How to build a github.io blog using Github Pages and Jekyll

A brief self-reminder on Github pages and Jekyll

Posted by wenyu on October 18, 2017

Introduction

Googling “Github Pages”

  • Create a repository named as “your_github_name.github.io”

Googling “template using Jekyll”

  • Find some existing templates and clone it to your repository
  • Install Jekyll on your machine
  • Run commands “jekyll build” and “jekyll serve” to modify the chosen template

Push to your repository

  • The blog url is exactly “your_github_name.github.io”